Mark in SF

Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

Brian, you reference some article slamming Gore written by somebody that clearly has no clue about science?

"Let me illustrate. I estimate that this square in front of my face contains 100,000 molecules of atmosphere. Of those 100,000 only 38 are CO2; 38 out of a hundred thousand. That makes it a trace component. Let me ask a key question: how can this tiny trace upset the entire balance of the climate of Earth? It can’t. That’s all there is to it; it can’t."

Please pick up an introductory geology or meteorology textbook. Without that 380ppm trace CO2 the earth would be a big ball of ice. (C02 used to be 25% less before the industrial revolution, something the author conveniently ignores)